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Quantifying Post-Earthquake Water System Functionality
Water system services may be characterized through five categories: water delivery, quality, quantity, fire protection, and functionality. The first four categories relate the provision of water to customers with the systems' basic intended purpose. Functionality describes a water system's overall operational ability to perform in a damaged state. This study describes how to quantify the service categories in a post-earthquake environment with a focus on incorporating systemic capabilities into functionality. The model quantifies water system functionality by directly accounting for customer service restorations resulting from damage repairs and incorporating inter-system dependencies. An example water system is used to explain the model and show its applicability from earthquake initiation through complete restoration. The example shows how a system can provide water soon after an earthquake in a manner customers are used to receiving, by use of redundancy and resources, while the system itself may remain in a highly damaged and vulnerable state. This attribute that water systems may possess has never before been modeled. The proposed model intends to improve the overall understanding of water system functionality and its relation to other services. The information is applicable to other lifeline systems.
Quantifying Post-Earthquake Water System Functionality
Water system services may be characterized through five categories: water delivery, quality, quantity, fire protection, and functionality. The first four categories relate the provision of water to customers with the systems' basic intended purpose. Functionality describes a water system's overall operational ability to perform in a damaged state. This study describes how to quantify the service categories in a post-earthquake environment with a focus on incorporating systemic capabilities into functionality. The model quantifies water system functionality by directly accounting for customer service restorations resulting from damage repairs and incorporating inter-system dependencies. An example water system is used to explain the model and show its applicability from earthquake initiation through complete restoration. The example shows how a system can provide water soon after an earthquake in a manner customers are used to receiving, by use of redundancy and resources, while the system itself may remain in a highly damaged and vulnerable state. This attribute that water systems may possess has never before been modeled. The proposed model intends to improve the overall understanding of water system functionality and its relation to other services. The information is applicable to other lifeline systems.
Quantifying Post-Earthquake Water System Functionality
Davis, C. A. (author)
Sixth China-Japan-US Trilateral Symposium on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering ; 2013 ; Chengdu, China
2013-12-11
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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